Ignatz Wiemeler

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Ignatz Wiemeler (born October 3, 1895 in Ibbenbüren , † May 25, 1952 in Hamburg ) was a German bookbinder , bag designer and university teacher .

In 1921, Hugo Eberhardt called Wiemeler to the School of Applied Arts (now the Hochschule für Gestaltung ) in Offenbach am Main , where he taught bookbinding until 1925 . In 1923 Ignatz Wiemeler was one of the founders of the Association of Masters of Binding Art .

In 1924 he took part in the book art exhibition organized by the Rhein-Main regional group of the Association of German Commercial Graphic Artists, which attracted national attention. His work had a major influence on the industrial production of book covers. At the same time, Wiemeler worked as a bag designer for the leather goods industry. In 1925 he accepted a professorship at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig , which he held until 1945, after which he switched to the Landeskunstschule Hamburg, where he stayed until his death.

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Ignatz Wiemeler is a representative of the traditional Offenbach School , which also includes the typographer Rudolf Koch and the painter Karl Friedrich Lippmann .

Ernst Engel , Wiemeler's colleague at the Offenbach School of Applied Arts , occupied him with the design of the book covers for his Ernst Engel press . These extremely exclusive small editions are still in demand today. Hölderlin's The Death of Empedocles from 1924 to 1925 was auctioned at Venator & Hanstein for € 28,000 in March 2008. Almost all hundred bindings by Ignatz Wiemeler are also represented in the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach with one copy each. A work by Wiemeler is on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Oct. 1, 1935 AA 186734, 32255).

literature

  • Helmut Presser : Ignatz Wiemeler bookbinder. 1895 to 1952, Hartung, 1953.
  • Swiss Gutenberg Museum, pp. 50–52, 1970.
  • Kurt Londenberg: Ignatz Wiemeler, catalog raisonné. Hamburg 1990
  • Heribert Tenschert: Ignatz Wiemeler: 18 hand bindings 1921–1938. 1992.

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